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Petition
If you agree to this petition and when it is registered with Scottish Parliament to sign, we may well have a much needed improvement to three hard-hit local economies, all of which are recovering from3 the post-pandemic collapse in businesses and a ferry that is 7 years late in being built.
So here is a new safety backup service (cash to fund it already set aside and managers, all of whom have run or owned ferry services, or driven ferries). This new, proposed Blackwaterfoot to Campbeltown ferry service will buy between 2 and 6 of the CalMac “Loch” class ferries they will be selling off in 2027. A “Loch” class ferry is pictured at the top of this page. The routes on and off the island of Arran will have a nEW 3rd access terminal…
^^ Replacing A Long Ferry Route With A Shorter One ^^
^^ Between Campbeltown-&-Blackwaterfoot Will Help Save Jobs ^^
^^ In Fact The Subscribers Can Prove This Will ^^
^^ Create Many Viable New Jobs ^^
This new Blackwaterfoot to Campbeltown ferry service is in addition to and in support of to the other, thankfully and expertly crewed safety backup ferry service between Lochranza and Claonaig. The aim is to have a second safety backup AND the equivalent of a new style of…
Job & Employment Boosting
NC 500 Coastal Tourism Circuit
Ayr to Arran to Argyll
otherwise known as…
Ardrossan-Brodick-Blackwaterfoot-Campbeltown
We will then ensure the Parliamentary Petitions Committee receive this new ferry route petition.
A similar petition worked 24 years ago, when we suggested to the Transport Secretary in 2001…
The announcement this Autumn 2025, that the economically crucial Campbeltown~Ardrossan ferry is cancelled for all of 2026 because the “BIG” ferry is needed elsewhere is terrible news.
Surely there is a solution to remedy this job-killing news?
Fortunately there is, and all you need do is type “YES” in the COMMENTS section on this petitions social media PETITION PAGE ~ once the formal, approved petition forms are received from the Transport Minister.
We will then ensure the Parliamentary Petitions Committee receive this new ferry route petition.
^^ Big Boat MV Isle if Arran Needed Elsewhere ^^ ^^ So Campbeltown, Argyll, Ardrossan, Ayr & Arran ^^ ^^ Suffers Economic Harm ^^
Fortunately, with the new ferries being due for delivery, there will be SIX of these excellent “Loch” class ferries going spare…
^^ Perfect Smaller “Loch” Class Ferry To Operate ^^
^^ Between Campbeltown in Argyll & Blackwaterfoot on Arran ^^
This means the “BIG” ferry can go permanently elsewhere.
With SIX spare “SMALLER” ferries in the CalMac/CMAL fleet, the result will be a full tourist season and local resident amenity with a much needed economic revival for the benefit of…
=> Southern Argyll and Kintyre + Campbeltown.
=> Plus help save Ardrossan Harbour and the economy of Ardrossan Town Centre.
=> In addition, bring some much needed relief to the bruised economy of Arran after the seven years it took to build MV Glen Sannox.
Important: We are not wishing to engage in the political footballs of this, just help repair the economic difficulties of the past few years at Campbeltown + Arran + Ardrossan.
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Information Will Be Added Here Regularly
Details of the jobs at all three communities will be protected by a relatively inexpensive slipway and deployment of 2 from 6 “Loch” class ferries that CalMac/CMAL will be soon selling off.
^^ One of CalMac/CMAL's spare "Loch" Class Ferries ^^
Ideal For New Route Deployment From...
Campbeltown (Argyll) to Blackwaterfoot (Arran)
Whereas if CalMac retain 2 or three of these ships, then there will be viable and productive new tourism route, thereby improving the local economies and protecting + creating local jobs.
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Please simply write “YES” in the COMMENTS SECTION on our FaceBook Page…
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We will then ensure the Parliamentary Petitions Committee receive this new ferry route petition.
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